Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-03-11

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Film music is as old as cinema itself. Years before synchronized sound became the norm, projected moving images were shown to musical accompaniment, whether performed by a lone piano player or a hundred-piece orchestra. Today film music has become its own industry,...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-03-11

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Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia to Ratna Sarumpaet's feminist Muslim Antigones. The book reveals patterns linking the colonial to the postcolonial eras that...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-03-10

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Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination is a study of extrascenic space and how playwrights have used narrative as an alternative to conventional scenic enactment. The book covers the work of writers as diverse as Euripides, Plautus, Shakespeare,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-03-01

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Women, Desire, and Power in Italian Cinema offers, for the first time in Italian Cinema criticism, a contextual study of the representation of women in twentieth-century Italian films. Marga Cottino-Jones argues that the ways women are depicted on screen reflects a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-02-15

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“Beautifully told. Maria Finn relays her adventures in the world of tango with excitement, wit, and insight.” —Robert Farris Thompson, author of Tango: The Art History of Love Maria Finn's husband was cheating. First she threw him out. Then...

Editeur : Algonquin Books
Parution : 2010-02-09

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Combining an exciting methodology alongside high-interest case studies, Television in Transition offers students of television a guide to a medium that has weathered the challenges of first-run syndication, a multi-channel universe, netlets, major media conglomerates,...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-02-05

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'I don't know what people expect when they meet me. They seem to be afraid that I'm going to piss in the potted palm and slap them on the ass.' Marlon Brando'I should have been dead ten times over. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.'...

Editeur : Preface Digital
Parution : 2010-02-04

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Maya Lowe is one of the world's most beautiful film starsShe still thinks she can lead a normal life, despite the fame that has made her a celebrity on both sides of the Atlantic. The twists and turns of her public and private life are observed by Steve Watkins, her...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-02-04

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A Companion to Michael Haneke With a new preface addressing the Academy award-winning film, Amour, this new-in-paper edition has established itself as the definitive collection on Michael Haneke—from his early work in television and theater, through his prodigious...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-02-04
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to Film Directors
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In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode takes us into the weird world of a life lived in widescreen. Join him as he gets lost in Russia on the trail of a low-budget horror flick, gasp as he's shot at in Hollywood while interviewing Bavarian director Werner...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-02-04

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Chromatic Cinema Color permeates film and its history, but study of its contribution to film has so far been fragmentary.Chromatic Cinema provides the first wide-ranging historical overview of screen color, exploring the changing uses and meanings of color in moving...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-02-02

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This book looks at Cuban and Argentine theater of the late 1960s and early 1970s to see how the idea of spectacle as violence was used to comment on and question the social and political violence that was unfolding offstage.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-02-01

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This provocative collection elaborates a trans-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle. Looking at the films of women directors in countries in the Mediterranean rim, this book spurs a contemporary discussion of women s human, civil, and social rights while...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-02-01

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On the surface it may seem slightly surprising that a master of verbal humour should also be a devotee of silent comedy, but Paul Merton is completely passionate about the early days of Hollywood comedy and the comic geniuses who dominated it. His knowledge is awesome -...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-01-26

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The Fantasy Film provides a clear and compelling overview of this revitalized and explosively popular film genre. Includes analyses of a wide range of films, from early classics such asThe Wizard of Oz and Harvey to Spiderman and Shrek, and blockbuster series such as...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2010-01-26
Collection : New Approaches to Film Genre
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Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-01-22

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Perhaps the most highly regarded French filmmaker after Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form's grammatical and expressive possibilities. In thirteen features over a forty-year career, he held to an...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-01-19

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Music has always been at the heart of American television. Amongst the many roles it plays in broadcasting, music entertains viewers with live and videotaped performances, evokes moods and identifies characters and settings, and sells products through commercial...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2009-12-17

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Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. ExploresMiami Vice's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept'...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2009-12-15
Collection : Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
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